September 4

“He’s alive! He’s alive!”

God is dynamic and not static…


Psalm 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Selah
4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

This Psalm has always fascinated me. Its images of waters, fluid and flowing, crashing and drowning, fluid and flowing, eroding and sweeping, summon up images of power and dynamism. The Psalmist was a poet, after all. He caught the essence of things in nature and through them sees characteristics and ways of God. God is dynamic and not static; he is a verb and not a noun; he is interactive and not withdrawn and he is with us and not apart.